New M3...

A nice easy one to finish the end of last week with, a protection detail on this M3 Cab:




Overall not too bad, just the usual winter grime you get at this time of year:







As always, the pre-foam comes first - Hyper Wash @ 60 degrees:




Left to dwell for 5 mins:




Then rinsed off at high pressure, taking a good 10 minutes to get as much grime off as possible:





Menzerna 7.5 was sprayed onto the wheels and left for 30 secs:




Then agitated with various brushes:






After the wheels were rinsed off, the tyres and arches were cleaned with Megs Super Degreaser and then rinsed off:









Eimann Fabrik Engine Degreaser was used for the engine bay:


- Sprayed on and left for 30 secs:




Then agitated:




And then rinsed off:






After another foam, the car (including the shuts) was then washed with a lambswool mitt and the 2BM:




After rinsing, I removed some minor tar spots with Tardis and then put the car inside for claying.



Marsha helped for this bit as she'd finished packing all the days orders:



Gloss-It Mild clay was used, as you can see the paint had little contamination, this was the worst of it:





The car was then dried off with a MF towel and I then removed some transport wax that was still visible in the engine bay/shuts etc:




After some Tardis on a work towel:





With the paint nicely prepped and dried off, it was time to lay down the initial basecoat of sealant, using Werkstat Acrylic Prime:




This was worked into the paintwork using a damp MF pad and then buffed off after 10 mins.

Acrylic Jett was then applied with a plush MF:




3 coats of Jett were applied with 30 mins in between each coat. It's a great product especially for winter as the protection is awesome once there's several coats on and all the products work perfectly regardless of temperature


Whilst I was doing the paintwork Marsha polished up the tailpipes with Megs NXT metal polish:




She also sealed the wheels with Blackfire's Metal Sealant...




...then dressed the tyres with Gloss-It:




Once left for 15-20 mins and then worked in with an applicator pad, the tyres end up looking like this:



The product dries into the tyres with no excess residue so sling isn’t an issue



I Rain-X'd all the exterior glass:





I then turned my attention to the interior, which needed a quick hoover and then an entire wipe down of all surface areas.

It would appear the dealership gave it a nice going over with some shiny dressing. Here's a tip - If you're going to dress the interior, make sure you do all of it...






Gloss-It Leather Cleaner was used to wipe down all leather and vinyl/plastics:




Raceglaze Leather Balm was then used to feed the leather:




Interior glass was cleaned with Eimann Fabrik and the shuts were the polished/sealed with Werkstat Prime Strong:




Left to cure:




Buffed off:









The paintwork was then given a light mist with Werkstat Acrylic Glos:




Then buffed off to remove any smears from the Jett:





The Rain-X was then removed with the help of the Rain-X glass cleaner:






The engine was also dressed with 303 Aerospace Protectant:









And here are the after pics, some taken with my camera and some with Rich's D300 as always:







































Total Time: 8 hours



Thanks for looking


Clark

 

as always, beautiful work!

 

well done sir

 

Looks great Clark! Is that a toilet bowl brush that you use for the wheel wells?

 

Wow, Looks great. very well done...:thumb:

 

Nah, it's smaller than that lol!

It's more like a bottle brush, but a bit softer

 

hahah toilet brush :fs:

Great write up Clark, always enjoy your details, thank you for taking the time to share with us...keep them coming :thumb:

 

Wow that looks great, I need to get me some of that Werkstatt. Do you find it a lot more effective to use hot water rather than just regular temperature water? Also, we'll need more pictures of Marsha.:

 

Wow fantastic job and the Werkstatt is looking great. Love the write up as well, very informative! Beautiful job on a beautiful car.

 

Looks absolutely jizztastic!!!

 

So does jizztastic mean what i think it does? lol:worship2:

 

man tha's one sick beast!! kinda like it better than someone's M5!!

 

Yep, hot water helps massively. Especially at this time of year with all the crap off the roads :thumb:

Cheers guys!

Clark

 

Looks Great :thumb:

Nice color too.

I gotta try that tyre dressing. They looked good. How I like them to look.!!

 

LMAO!!

Nice work, sort of a boring color though. :shrug:

 

What did you dress the engine with? or did you even dress the engine at all?

 

Fantastic finish Clark, keem them comming:thumb:

 

Love the M3. I have a Space Gray 335i and it runs its balls off, I could only imagine another 100 hp. That hood and fenders are sweet also.

What is the car parked on? Is that to catch the water for the environment?

 

Fantastic job! :worship2:

 

How long have you had your 335i ? My brother just got his and it only has about 220miles on it so hes still breaking it in but I havent found that car to impress me like i though when i dorve it a few times. I think we need to fully break it in to see what kind of performance its capable of.